Milwaukee!

Hi all,

I'm alive and well and Milwaukee is great so far.  It's very pretty, with the lake and river and whatnot, and the theatre itself is pretttttty amazing.  All the other interns and people I've met so far are extremely nice and cool, and the place I'm staying is really nice as well.  It's a bit like being a freshman again with meeting all the new people and getting used to all the new places, and especially since all the interns are living in the same apartment/hotel building, so I can go downstairs or down the hall and see other interns any time day or night.  I'll send out a mass e-mail in a few days with all the good how-to-reach-me info, but in the meantime you can always do the whole cell phone thang.  Hmm, what else?  Well, I started "work" yesterday, although so far it has mostly consisted or orientation-type stuff with the other interns.  The other SM intern, Melissa, and I have also started working specifically with our department to prepare for the season's shows (16 in total!).  I'm working on 6 of those 16 throughout my stay here, the first one being the first show of the season, A Flea in her Ear.  So I've started attending mini-production meetings for that show, and have been doing general prepare-for-the-first-day-of-rehearsal stuff (rehearsals starts Monday).  Until Labor Day I have Sundays off, then after that it's every Monday that I have off.  I hope to lose a few pounds with all the walking I've been doing, which will continue through my stay here since the car is backin PA with Mom! But it seems like anything I need is in walking distance anyway.  And the money situation seems okay so far, since I made so much more money than usual this summer, and it seems like the theatre people try to feed us poor interns as often as possible.  Yay for that!  And, APPARENTLY, we can get food stamps.  No, really.  We interns are poor enough that we can get FOOD STAMPS.  How crazy is that?  I'm proud of that fact rather than embarrassed by it ;)   Anyway, my internet now works, so say hi to my away message, await my e-mail, leave me voice messages, and I'll tty soon!

Some random pictures I found and liked:

Mom and I at Jason's grad party

Berg kids plus Randy at Jason's grad party..and another

Minus Randy at Jason's

Berg kids at Noelle's graduation party

In Noelle's basement by the red doors

The girls by the red doors

The End!